The Atlanta Dream’s Angel Reese has set yet another rebounding milestone; where does she rank among the greatest on the boards in WNBA history?
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Angel Reese‘s first foray with the Atlanta Dream continues to be whimsical, as she set yet another landmark in Tuesday’s 107-95 victory over the Toronto Tempo.
Reese is feeling 22 in historic fashion, as she has earned that many double-doubles in this campaign. That’s now the most in a single Dream season to pass the output of Tina Charles in 2024 and she’s six away from the 28 Alyssa Thomas put up with the Connecticut Sun the year prior. Reese has mostly built her tallies up with a polarizing rebounding prowess, notably earning 14 with 20 points in the fateful 22nd pair of double-figures to help topple Toronto on Tuesday.
Yet another Georgian milestone will once again raise questions about Reese’s place in history. With her first postseason berth looming, it’s worth taking a look with a simple ranking of the greatest rebounders …
5. Angel Reese
By this point in time, it’s clear that Reese’s game and style of play, centered on adaptation as a traditional center and the polarizing self-described concept of “mebounds,” isn’t going to “do it” for everyone. It’s more likely she goes down on a list like this than goes up and she benefits from working with a trigger-happy group like the Dream.
Nonetheless, the numbers don’t lie and Reese’s tell vocal truths: she’s the all-time leader in WNBA rebounds per game by a wide margin (12.5, nearly three ahead of second-place Sylvia Fowles) and has left countless other numbers of post prowess in the dust, to the point where she’s at the cusp of entering the top 100 all-time in less than two seasons.
Again, Reese’s play scheme isn’t for everyone. It’ll likely take an evolution of her offensive game to change the ironclad opinions that have formed against her. Still, the entire point of the game is to rebound, whether its instantaneously or more calculated and meditated. The numbers, while far from telling the complete story, state that she has left an impact that can’t be denied, especially in such a sizable yet speedy timespan.
Angel Reese has the most double-doubles in a season for the Atlanta Dream AND Chicago Sky. pic.twitter.com/JG5pkicVvo
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4. Courtney Williams
Why let the frontcourt reps have all the fun? It’s worth giving some to Williams, one of the few traditional, listed guards that keeps pace with the fantastic forwards and sensational centers. Denying Williams her spot on a list such as this would likely fuel her even further and wreak havoc for next opponents.
After getting a year to find herself professionally between Phoenix and Connecticut, Williams has never had a season where she’s had fewer than four boards a game. Her crashing came up particularly big in the early stages of this Lynx season, which saw Minneapolis work without Napheesa Collier while dealing with the more permanent departures of Jessica Shepard and Alanna Smith. Time will tell if it leads to an elusive ring for both Williams and the Lynx but it has further cemented her status as an elite board buster.
3. Tamika Catchings
Catchings already went down as one of the most inspirational stories in modern professional sports history, generating an accomplished career with the Indiana Fever after overcoming a hearing impairment. But that was hardly enough for Catchings, who developed a sterling reputation for taking what she wanted when she wanted between Indianapolis and the Pat Summit-led collegiate environment in Knoxville.
Evidence of Catching’s dominance should’ve been dominant from the get-go, when she put up a rare quintuple-double during her days at Duncanville (TX) High School. Catchings carried such a prowess over to the pros, helping an expansion club find its footing creating a victorious tradition that Aliyah Boston, Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, and more continue to foster and fulfill. Catchings retired as the WNBA’s all-time leading rebounder in both regular and postseason history, still placing seventh and third in the respective categories to this day despite fellow talents emerging beyond the league’s original groups.
2. Tina Charles
If Charles had fully committed to the rebounding bit, she could’ve well been the greatest-ever. Instead, the owner of nearly every bit of amateur and professional hardware there is to win beyond anything from the WNBA Finals, would up rounding off the rest of her game, becoming a reliable scorer and even a niche distributor, averaging multiple assists per game by the end of her lengthy WNBA tenure.
Even with her further fostering supposedly holding her back, Charles still managed to leave the game as the WNBA’s all-time leading rebounder, pulling in 4,262 in a career that worked through Connecticut, New York, Washington, Phoenix, Seattle, and Atlanta. Built to board at 6-foot-4, Charles set all kinds of rebounding records through brevity and perseverance, earning her marks in less than 500 games and taking two seasons off (2020 and 2023) entirely.
#25HoopClass inductee Sylvia Fowles:
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1. Sylvia Fowles
A 6’6, 219 lb. dominant force out of LSU, Fowles made her mark in the perhaps the most happy medium time one could hope to find success at the major women’s basketball level. It was time away from the mainstream yet far from the narratives. It was a purer time where the fight against systemic challenges, one where Fowles played an active role, was about to hit a fever pitch, one where big numbers couldn’t be simply overlooked by increasing number of games played.
She had plenty more to say both literally and figuratively but Fowles could’ve simply let her glass game do the talking, to the tune of over 400 alone during the 2018 campaign. Fowles averaged double-figures in rebounding on seven occasions, turning transfer of power in the seasonal record into a mini-tradition before Reese did: she pulled in 11.5 per game as a member of the Chicago Sky, a record that stood for only five years … Fowles herself broke the record during that epic 2018 tour. That wasn’t even the last time she led the WNBA in rebounding, as she did so one more time at the age of 36 in 2022.
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